Mainstream GOP is completely hypocritical on the budget

If you doubt that, read this press release in which a key GOP legislator promises never to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Washington, D.C.) — At an August 16 public forum in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) declared that current Medicare and Social Security beneficiaries should not face any reductions in benefits from the powerful 12 memberJoint Select Committee on Budget Deficit Reduction, also known as the Super Committee, to which he has been appointed. The Super Committee is charged with proposing $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction by Nov. 23, 2011.

Upton said the following at the forum: “It’s critical…that the people that are benefitting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It’s awfully hard to tell someone… who might be 82, that they’ve gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That’s not gonna happen. We’re not gonna allow that to happen.”

If we can't reduce costs in these two socialist programs, boys and girls, then forget about ever balancing the budget. And accept the fact that the currency will collapse.

UPDATE: This guy is a complete hypocrite. After a reader commented on Upton's position, I looked up the Americans for Tax Reform site to see if he had taken the pledge never to raise taxes. Sure enough, he took the pledge.

Simple math tells us that all of that future spending on the two socialist programs he cited can be met only by either raising taxes or borrowing more money from the Chinese.

It's a sad day when a Republican makes the Democrats look fiscally conservative by comparison. But this is that day.